And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express; these represent some of the literary world's most spectacular and memorable mysteries. With its fantastic first chapter, King Art's The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief, receives such a great setup that it thus far feels worthy of comparison to both those timeless stories and the best of the point-and-click adventure genre.
Chapter 1: The Eye of the Sphinx has all the elements of a great mystery story: a dastardly crime by an imposing villain, an unlikely protagonist, a series of exotic settings, and a cast of eccentric suspects. The characters are its main strength: From the get-go, Swiss Constable Anton Zellner's hands are full convincing a world-weary French investigator he's needed to track down the infamous jewel thief known as The Raven; after that, his social skills are taxed by a precocious kid with a penchant for toy pistols, a baroness who uses haughtiness to hide a drinking problem, a penniless musician with a taste for the finer things, and a self-absorbed doctor with mysterious motives for moving his practice.
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